The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 13

My greatest fear was for my eyes, which I should have lost if I had not suddenly thought of the pair of spectacles which had escaped the Emperor’s searchers.

Who acts: greatest fear, I, My · What happens: be, lose, not think, escape, fear · To what, where: eyes, pair

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greatest fear, I, My), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 fear	nmod:poss
2	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 fear	amod
3	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eyes	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eyes	cop
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lost	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lost	nsubj:pass
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 lost	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 lost	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 lost	aux
13	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 eyes	conj
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 thought	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 thought	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 thought	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 thought	advmod
18	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	19 thought	advmod
19	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 lost	advcl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 pair	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pair	det
22	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thought	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 spectacles	case
24	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pair	nmod
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 escaped	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 escaped	aux
27	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 pair	acl:relcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Emperor	det
29	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 searchers	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 Emperor	case
31	searchers	searcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 escaped	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 eyes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	My greatest fear		for my eyes	tree rules
2	lose	should · perfect · passive		my eyes		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	not think speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	I		of the pair of spectacles; suddenly property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	escape	past · perfect · passive		the pair of spectacles		tree rules
5	fear		My			nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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